Mitologia: poesia e prosa . ew Testa-mento, è stato costruito in suo onore. Venere Venere, dea dell'amore e della bellezza, è stato namedAphrodite, significato nato dalla schiuma-sul coastof Cythera, ma è stato bruciato per l'Isola dei Cipressi, whereshe era adorato come una dea. Ovunque lei chancedto guardare o dove ha camminato i fiori e la granella burstinto fiore. Accappatoi sono stati tessuti per lei da le grazie, whoalso decorate con lei con ghirlande di timo, violetta, narcissus,crocus, giacinto, la rosa e il giglio. Ella è la dea offlower giardini e il Linden foreste. Il meads, colline,copes, crofts, garths e m

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Mythology: poetry and prose . ew Testa-ment, was built in her honor. VENUS Venus, Goddess of Love and Beauty, has been namedAphrodite, meaning born from the foam—on the coastof Cythera, but was blown to the Island of Cypress, whereshe was worshipped as a goddess. Wherever she chancedto look or wherever she walked the flowers and grain burstinto flower. Robes were woven for her by the Graces, whoalso decorated her with garlands of thyme, violet, narcissus, crocus, hyacinth, the rose and the lily. She is goddess offlower gardens and the linden forests. The meads, hills, copes, crofts, garths and meadows are hers. The clear andrefreshing zephyrs are hers. She entrances by her physicalcharms. No one can resist her beauty. No one can resisther cestus or girdle. It stimulates in all beholders a desireto love and embrace her. She has always been a femininemodel of physical perfection, both in face and form. Hersweet, piquant smiles have won the hearts of all men, bothwealthy and wise, the brave and the meek. She has been. Venus De Milo POETRY AND PROSE 135 the cause, by her seductive nature, of both pleasing mo-ments and broken hearts. She has stimulated and inspiredlove in both gods and men, such as Adonis, 43neas, Paris, Helen, Pygmalion, Psyche and Ariadne. She has beenworshipped in every land and on the seven seas. The swanof the water and the dove of the air were loved by her.She is usually accompanied by her dwarf son, Cupid, theGod of the Silver Bow. The statues of Venus are numer-ous, but the one that represents her as the Greeks imaginedshe must be worthy of according to her heralded beauty, and without doubt the most beautiful and perfect statue ofwoman extant, is the Venus de Milo, now in the LouvreMuseum of Paris. The Venus de Medici is second inbeauty and the Venus by Praxiteles third. There isnothing in the world that could symbolize the beauty ofnature (Nature Smiling) better than the figure of abeautiful, smiling woman, as Venus is supposed to havebeen. It is

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